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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: MAYER BERNADETTE Matches Found: 95 Mayer, Bernadette Poet's Biography 95 poems available by this author 10-AUG First Line: Enola gay smithsonian Last Line: Purple noon, but can ii hold down a regular job 12-AUG First Line: Pair bonding %abdominal icicles jim jones I'm watching guyana Last Line: Powell to the people--ny daily news 23-AUG First Line: Peggy, bob and elizabeth were %hanging out and we were talking Last Line: To olive with phil (& maybe others), tonight we %went to veniero's 25-AUG First Line: Nature's fury great balls of fire tutti fruitti Last Line: Convention by oliver north (and somebody else) ABOUT CHEATING OR THE CLOCKS WRONG Last Line: As though we didn't know AFTER CATALLUS AND HORACE Poem Text First Line: Only the manners of centuries ago can teach me Last Line: And of the lonesome sappho. Let's have it warm for now Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Love AFTER SEXTET First Line: Pull out slowly right after youth Last Line: But quickly wash semi-final away with sobriety %and watecolor BECAUSE EVERYTHING SEEMED TRIVIAL Last Line: & I'm dying for the note BEFORE SEXTET Poem Text First Line: Use a new conductor every time-out Last Line: Start over with a new onion Subject(s): Desire; Relationships; Writing & Writers BEFORE SEXTET First Line: Use a new conductor every time-out Last Line: Start over with a new onion BIRTHDAY SONNET FOR GRACE First Line: I've always loved (your) grace in 14 lines, sometimes Last Line: To reiterate how I love you any time BOB DOLE, MISPRONOUNCES WORDS Last Line: Mike tyson, raymond sierra BOOZE TURNS MEN INTO WOMEN First Line: A sip of coors makes children be %nuclear power plant contractors Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism BRILLIANT BRAVADO OCTOBER 2O NIGHT First Line: Nothing answers, there was a nightmare of fluency in the dream, the pleasures Last Line: Absent-minded curse on me like two sentences on clean pages, part mine CARLTON FISK IS MY IDEAL First Line: He wears a beautiful necklace CHINESE BREAKFAST First Line: Is it so far to the door COMPLETE INTRODUCTORY LECTURES ON POETRY First Line: It was when the words on the covers of books CZESTOVONA OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT Last Line: Who cares? It would be best not to care about anyone or thing! %goodby forever DAMN I WISH PHIL Last Line: Though we'll be %naked DISJECTA MEMBRA First Line: And young he (there's always been this dare) sleeps waking DOLE=O.J. Last Line: Highlighter spider DRIVEN OR Last Line: We didn't want to EARTHWORKS First Line: The earthworks in the sand and the mounds Last Line: To the trailing off of our plans ELEVENTH CUP First Line: International sententiousness has made us pour Last Line: That would be a fantastically expensive thing to do END OF HUMAN REIGN ON BASHAN HILL First Line: They come down on their snowmobiles for the last time Last Line: Have a piece of chocolate! %open your eyes ESSAY First Line: I guess it's too late to live on the farm EVE OF EASTER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Milton, who made his illiterate daughters Last Line: And wound up caring for the babies of these guys Subject(s): Children; Writing & Writers; Writing & Writers; Childhood EVE OF EASTER First Line: Milton, who made his illiterate daughters Subject(s): Writing And Writers FAILURES IN INFINITIVES Poem Text First Line: Why am I doing this? Failure Last Line: To paint your ceilings & walls for free Subject(s): Failure; Language; Conduct Of Life; Words; Vocabulary FALSE FINCH'S WEDDING GOWN First Line: In the blue descriptive city Last Line: Which letter of the alphabet would I become? FAMILIAR, BUT LATE Last Line: Someone's kept %me in the %dark on this FIRST TURN TO ME Poem Text First Line: First turn to me after a shower Last Line: First turn to me after a showe Subject(s): Love - Erotic GAY FULL STORY First Line: Gay full story is authentic verve fabulous jay gull stork. Last Line: World's leading creation of the brain on the spot indwelling puzzlemaker GIBBONS DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE Last Line: Look there are pineapples on the wall paper and I'll say! HERE'S A BOX OF BRASS PLATED STEEL Last Line: Turkey hill carrot cake ice cream HEY HEY HOW MANY KIDS Last Line: Maybe it's both neurological and true HOLDING THE THOUGHT OF LOVE First Line: And to render harmless a bomb or the like HOMAGE TO H & THE SPEEDWAY DINER Poem Text First Line: It's alot like a cave full of pictures Last Line: Eve party & eat stuffed shrimp and/or lobster Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners ICE CUBE EPIGRAMS First Line: There was an interruption for with & because of Last Line: & to your aching feet to alleviate from top to bottom %your disbelief in this world's absence of fre INCANDESCENT WAR POEM SONNET Poem Text First Line: Even before I saw the chambered nautilus Last Line: In the artificial light in which she woke Subject(s): War INTRODUCTION First Line: Helen %element, %mistress of form Last Line: With her taking it all in, thank you to %our %element, %helen IS THE AMETHYST ROCK MORE IMPORTANT Last Line: Sensitivity, didn't you? Amen. Rita dove IT IS THE RADICAL WISH-LIST Last Line: The means of %enforced blindness IT MOVES ACROSS First Line: It moves across and over Last Line: Near a patch of grass IT WAS MISS SCARLET WITH THE CANDLESTICK IN THE BILLIARD RM. First Line: As there are taped sororal presents & psychological reversals KRISTIN'S DREAM IN NOVEMBER Poem Text First Line: I went thru the turnstyle to the party Last Line: & trying to tango remorselessly Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares LAUNDRY & SCHOOL EPIGRAMS First Line: For all of us LOVE First Line: Derangement, on beauty, course of the sound Last Line: Love %thanks a million! MARION BARRY RIKCK BARRY MARION FARRIER Last Line: Jennifer jason leigh mirandaa richardson NO MORE DUE TO THIS Last Line: Really there's no reason %too vile NOUN PILEUP OF TRAVEL ON M15 BUS First Line: A man in a hat that has letters on it Last Line: The answer's a now, eric's thought is not the truth %14th street ODE ON PERIODS Poem Text First Line: The penis is something that fits into the vagina Last Line: So friends! Hold the bloody sponge up! / for all to see! Subject(s): Menstruation OH, RIGHT-I FORGET ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES Last Line: Youth. And so good night ON GIFTS FOR GRACE Poem Text First Line: I saw a great teapot Last Line: Its being is the same as the meaning of your name Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Praise ON GIFTS FOR GRACE First Line: I saw a great teapot ONE WAS ABOUT NIGHT Last Line: All you ever have POEM Poem Text First Line: Song birds take a bath in our elephant pool Subject(s): Nature POEM First Line: I am beginning to alter Last Line: Sets the scene %to a bell POSSESSIVES AND APOSTROPHES First Line: Today's air despite its Last Line: In some of our physiology's ways SCREAMING CHEETAH WHEELIES First Line: Once I finished with my etymology class Last Line: I want to see courtney and western too SESTINA; FOR TED BERRIGAN First Line: As love as what by chance as brotherly Last Line: Community, answers death just with poetry or else. Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Brothers; Death; Love; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Half-brothers; Dead, The SOME LIKE IT HOT Last Line: Begun to fight. Vinyl siding wash SONNET Poem Text First Line: Name address date Last Line: Is a tooth: Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SONNET Poem Text First Line: You jerk you didn't call me up Last Line: You can either make love or die at the hands of the cobra commander Subject(s): Love - Complaints SONNET First Line: A thousand apples you might put in your theories Last Line: C'mon and show me something newer than even dante SONNET First Line: Beauty of songs your absence I should Last Line: My lysistrata, my unannounced rhyme SONNET First Line: Love is a babe as you know and when you SONNET FOR FRED POHL First Line: I'm not male or female either but that Last Line: Couplet opposites yes of stream of no SONNET: KAMIKAZE First Line: Dawn & night of fighting, lovers like actual wars STORY OF A WOMAN WHO AM I? FORGIVE ME First Line: An ugly little monster is born in connecticut Last Line: Muse of the way you go up and down the corner SURROUNDED BY MOSQUITOES Last Line: Plucking a pizzicato %piccolo THE TRAGIC CONDITION OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY Poem Text First Line: Give me your tired, your poor Last Line: This is the most generous contribition I can afford Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty; Social Commentaries; Popular Culture - United States THE WAY TO KEEP GOING IN ANTARCTICA Poem Text First Line: Be strong bernadette Last Line: If I suffered what else could I do Subject(s): Antarctica; Conduct Of Life THIS IS THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION PERIOD Last Line: Your name is!!! Bernadette whatever TIRES FOR SUCCULENT First Line: Wash handclasps--as well as pen name, vain glory Last Line: Use a fresh onion TOASTERS IN THE ATTIC First Line: My dear bernie bella figura Last Line: Come to dada TOMORROW Poem Text First Line: Tomorrow we'll see the lightbulb in schenectady Last Line: War what is it good for? / absolutely nothing Subject(s): Food & Eating; Travel; Journeys; Trips TRAGIC CONDITION OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY First Line: Give me your tired, your poor VERY STRONG FEBRUARY Poem Text First Line: A man and a woman pretend to be white ice Last Line: Go to work to push away the rest of the white snow that will fall tonight Subject(s): Time; Winter VINTAGE SELTZER WATER Last Line: Anthology an ear to the ground %pansy- pensee VISIONS OR DESOLATION First Line: Come on, there's always the chance kids will do this, fight uncontrollably Last Line: Sensation, so of this letter W SONNET First Line: When there was not a difference between Last Line: When we're sitting around then talking again WARREN PHINNEY First Line: A little boy on august first night WATCHING THE COMPLEX TRAIN-TRACK CHANGES Poem Text First Line: You put on an ornate ballgown Last Line: All through its rooms, its streets and its commons Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations WATCHING THE COMPLEX TRAIN-TRACK CHANGES First Line: You put on an ornate ballgown Last Line: All through its rooms, its streets and its commons WE EAT OUT TOGETHER Poem Text First Line: My heart is a fancy place Last Line: Then home in the heart of a big limousine Subject(s): Food & Eating WIDWINTER DAY: 1 First Line: Stately you came to town in my opening dream Last Line: This was my dream %now it is done WIDWINTER DAY: 2 First Line: Sophia likes a cup of coffee to be in the picture too, she Last Line: All the difference, still carrying you as a talisman, I'm dying to get to %the post office WIDWINTER DAY: 3 First Line: The dark brown stairs Last Line: Lost in the house of love's safe locks, %movement's chance perfidy WIDWINTER DAY: 4 First Line: Home clark's waiting for us. The last time Last Line: Am beginning to be able to say something, which is another story, %am surprised WIDWINTER DAY: 5 First Line: It's getting dark out, what's this desire? Last Line: Love's figure to begin the absent night WIDWINTER DAY: 6 First Line: In yokuntown we write all night Last Line: And drives away the long black night! WOMAN I MIX MEN UP WORK IN PROGRESS First Line: First turn to me after a shower Last Line: Think of all the times they didn't care Variant Title(s): First Turn To M WORKING IN PARIS, HOW MANY Last Line: Translated %and nothing breaks |
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